danwin.com » dialysis https://danwin.com Words, photos, and code by Dan Nguyen. The 'g' is mostly silent. Thu, 21 Nov 2019 12:29:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.39 ProPublica Investigates Dialysis: For-Profit Providers Flourish as Care Quality Flounders https://danwin.com/2010/11/propublica-investigates-dialysis-for-profit-providers-flourish-as-care-quality-flounders/ https://danwin.com/2010/11/propublica-investigates-dialysis-for-profit-providers-flourish-as-care-quality-flounders/#comments Thu, 11 Nov 2010 17:15:31 +0000 https://danwin.com/?p=1412 A great in-depth look by my ProPublica colleague Robin Fields into the dialysis industry. It was a field I was barely familiar with, as only about 400,000 Americans are on dialysis, but the entitlement as grown from $135 million to $20 billion annually, with mixed and depressing results. I took this photo of a woman […]

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]]> A great in-depth look by my ProPublica colleague Robin Fields into the dialysis industry. It was a field I was barely familiar with, as only about 400,000 Americans are on dialysis, but the entitlement as grown from $135 million to $20 billion annually, with mixed and depressing results.

I took this photo of a woman whose mother nearly bled to death after being improperly hooked up to a dialysis machine.

Cathleen Sharkey holds a frame of photographs of her mother, Barbara Scott, whose bloodline became disconnected during a dialysis treatment at Dutchess Dialysis Center. Scott never fully recovered and died shortly after of heart failure. (Dan Nguyen/ProPublica)

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